International Institute for Environment and Development / by Cecilia Tacoli http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10590IIED.pdf [From ClimateWire article by Lisa Friedman, sub. req'd]…Using case studies from Bolivia, Senegal and Tanzania — all prone to “slow onset climate change” — Tacoli found that temporary migration already is an integral part of many rural communities. Instead of crossing borders when disasters … Continue reading »
Posted on February 11, 2011 …
Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels
Environmental Science and Technology (Web publication date : January 25, 20110/ by T. E. McKone, W. W. Nazaroff, P. Berck, M. Auffhammer, T. Lipman, M. S. Torn, E. Masanet, A. Lobscheid, N. Santero, U. Mishra http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es103579c [From a Greenwire article by Jenny Mandel, sub. req'd] In a paper titled “Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of … Continue reading »
Energy Cost Impacts on American Families, 2001-2011
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity / by Eugene M. Trisko, Esq. http://www.americaspower.org/sites/default/files/Energy_Cost_Burdens_on_American_Families_2011.pdf [From Website] One-half of American households will spend 20 percent of their after-tax income on energy costs this year, according to a study released today by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. The study outlined how increases in energy costs since … Continue reading »
Sustainability: The ‘Embracers’ Seize Advantage
MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group http://tinyurl.com/4vlwmhp [From Preface and Executive Summary] While global economic and political factors might have predicted otherwise, corporate commitments to sustainability-driven management are strengthening. But even as enterprises overall are strengthening their commitments, one cohort of organizations is expanding its commitments far more aggressively than others-and a … Continue reading »
NOAA and Commerce Department Draft Aquaculture Policies
NOAA / US Department of Commerce NOAA draft: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/policy2/comments.htm Commerce draft: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/doc_policy/index.htm [From NOAA Fisheries Service page] The Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are seeking public comment on complementary draft national aquaculture policies that support sustainable marine aquaculture in the United States…. The intent of the policies is to … Continue reading »
The Last Drop: Climate Change and the Southwest Water Crisis
Stockholm Environment Institute / Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton http://sei-us.org/Publications_PDF/SEI-WesternWater-0211.pdf [From Executive Summary] In the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah – there is less rain and snowfall each year than the amount of water used in the region. Today that shortfall is made up for by pumping groundwater, well … Continue reading »
Degrees of Risk: Defining a Risk Management Framework for Climate Security
Pew Center for Global Climate Change / by Nick Mabey, Jay Gulledge, Bernard Finel and Katherine Silverthorne http://tinyurl.com/4ttga4s [Executive Summary] There is a growing consensus in the security community that climate change presents significant risks to the delivery of national, regional and global security goals. Through sea level rise, shortages of food and water and … Continue reading »
Measuring the Indirect Land-Use Change Associated With Increased Biofuel Feedstock Production: A Review of Modeling Efforts: Report to Congress
Economic Research Service, USDA / By Elizabeth Marshall, Margriet Caswell, Scott Malcolm, Mesbah Motamed, Jim Hrubovcak, Carol Jones, and Cynthia Nickerson http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/AP/AP054/AP054.pdf [From report website] The House Report 111-181 accompanying H.R. 2997, the 2010 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, requested the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) in conjunction … Continue reading »
One Million Electric Vehicles By 2015: February 2011 Status Report
US Department of Energy http://www.energy.gov/news/documents/1_Million_Electric_Vehicle_Report_Final.pdf [Executive Summary] President Obama’s goal of putting one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015 represents a key milestone toward dramatically reducing dependence on oil and ensuring that America leads in the growing electric vehicle manufacturing industry. Although the goal is ambitious, key steps already taken and further steps … Continue reading »
Managing Residential Energy Demand Through Provision of Better Feedback
RAND Corporation Dissertation / by Myles T. Collins http://tinyurl.com/46toqvx [Abstract] New and affordable technology for providing detailed feedback on household electricity usage presents a host of opportunities for utilities and policy-makers to manage demand. This dissertation examines ways to use these devices to reduce — and shift the timing of — energy use in the … Continue reading »
